This is no April Fools trick…
By sishy7
@sishy7 (27169)
Australia
April 1, 2017 12:23pm CST
# 63
I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me when I saw the flowers in my picture on someone’s yard. They could have fooled me for some fake flowers. Until I got close and touched them myself then I was sure it’s real... 
I’ve never seen such flowers before. They look like someone just stuck them in the grass on a stick or something. They seem to just shoot out from the ground out of nowhere. The stem is about 1 cm, or less than half an inch in diameter. It’s about 30 cm or a foot long (the part from just above the ground to the flowers). It’s kind of brownish color with very soft white furs and very strong. It’s a very strange plant to me but pretty flowers nonetheless... 
Does it look familiar to you? With my limited knowledge of plants and flowers, I won’t be surprised if it is just me who find this strange and interesting the way it grows… 
I’ve never seen such flowers before. They look like someone just stuck them in the grass on a stick or something. They seem to just shoot out from the ground out of nowhere. The stem is about 1 cm, or less than half an inch in diameter. It’s about 30 cm or a foot long (the part from just above the ground to the flowers). It’s kind of brownish color with very soft white furs and very strong. It’s a very strange plant to me but pretty flowers nonetheless...
Does it look familiar to you? With my limited knowledge of plants and flowers, I won’t be surprised if it is just me who find this strange and interesting the way it grows… 21 people like this
20 responses
@sishy7 (27169)
• Australia
2 Apr 17
Oohhh... this must be it then... It is getting close to Easter... 
Tell me, are the ones outside your bedroom French doors look similar to the one in my picture? I mean, do they look like they're on a stick still planted in the ground with no leaves?
Tell me, are the ones outside your bedroom French doors look similar to the one in my picture? I mean, do they look like they're on a stick still planted in the ground with no leaves? 3 people like this
@JudyEv (326127)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Apr 17
@sishy7 Of course, Easter moves a bit each year but it is always somewhere near that these bloom. I've attached a photo of mine. I wrote about them here a while back. I'll attach a link.
This is a somewhat out-of-focus photo (and for some reason the bottom is cut off) of what we in Australia call an Easter lily. As far as I'm aware they are...
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@much2say (53944)
• Los Angeles, California
1 Apr 17
I see what you mean . . . because I know I've seen artificial flowers exactly like that before. At the same time, I know there are real ones, but couldn't tell you anything more about them! I saw a bunch of red/yellow ones at the store the other day . . . in large bunches and with longer stems than what you have here.
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@allknowing (130114)
• India
2 Apr 17
They sure are lilies. I have them in our garden. They come up with no leaves sometimes.
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@allknowing (130114)
• India
2 Apr 17
@sishy7 These are from my garden. I have a few other varieties too.
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@sishy7 (27169)
• Australia
2 Apr 17
@allknowing oh, pretty... I like the orange/peach colors... do they also grow looking like they are 'on sticks' in your garden?
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
30 Apr 17
Did you already find out the name of this lily plant, @sishy7? I know it, if you haven't found it out yet.
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@infatuatedbby (94921)
• United States
10 Apr 17
There are times when I think something is fake usually when I shop at Costco then I have to touch it to make sure 
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@infatuatedbby (94921)
• United States
10 Apr 17
@sishy7 lol but wouldn't it be weird to just stick a fake flower in the middle of no where??? :)
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@sishy7 (27169)
• Australia
10 Apr 17
@infatuatedbby Yeah, but the thought of someone's playing an April Fools prank did cross my mind...
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@Tampa_girl7 (49129)
• United States
31 Jul 17
I don't recognize it, but it is very pretty.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
3 Apr 17
lillies, but they do look odd all alone like that!
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
4 Apr 17
@sishy7 bird ate a seed and pooped there, wind moved it, rain washed it around, could be!
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
24 Apr 17
hahaha! me too, i was fooled with orchids here at home, and i even made a discussion about that:
I can't remember whose discussion did I comment on being fooled by an orchid. Because the roses were all in bloom, I took pictures of these again,including the...
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@sishy7 (27169)
• Australia
24 Apr 17
@ridingbet Yes, thinking it was fake was what happened to me when I first saw this flower from a distance... When I touched it, that's when I knew it was real... I thought someone was doing an April Fools trick or something... 
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
24 Apr 17
@sishy7 they are artificial orchids my friend, and i really thought they were real.
my brother commented in one of my posts on FB that 'it was good the violet orchids did not yet wither'. . i also have another discussion about 'thinking it was fake'.
. i also have another discussion about 'thinking it was fake'.1 person likes this
@diosabella (4789)
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1 May 17
Looked like a lily but I'm not sure what kind. But they look so pretty! Thanks for sharing!
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@sishy7 (27169)
• Australia
2 May 17
@diosabella Yeah, there are so many different kinds of lilies but I think they are all beautiful... In fact, I don't think I've seen any flower that is not beautiful...
@diosabella (4789)
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2 May 17
@sishy7 We also have lilies here but nothing as beautiful as that.
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@sishy7 (27169)
• Australia
3 Apr 17
@Kuttu_007 It is getting close to Easter and that's when those flowers are starting to bloom...
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@Shellyann36 (11385)
• United States
12 Apr 17
It is really beautiful. I love the color. I believe they are lilies.
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I hope to buy them for her on mother's day, or even plant some for her 
@responsiveme (22926)
• India
19 Apr 17
Lillies have a habit of Springing up in Spring.
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